The Dickinson press., 1887-05-14

III a SUIT TO ccoNer salary aS Secre-
tary of the Fargo& Southern railway
Major Edwards. of Fargo. was recent
ly awarded s5.302.
The plans and specifications for the
Rapid City school of mines metallur-
gical laboratory have been forwarded
to Governor Church for his approval.
President Hill has blasted the
hopes of Minnewaukan getting the
Manitoba extension from Hope. He
says the Hope branch will not he ex-
tended this year.
Grand Forks is rapidly approaching
a position of perfect purity. The
Herald takes occasion to mention
that for once the boys ahstained from
playing ball during the whole of one
Sabbath day.
Fargo is still excited about natnr-
al gas, and Judge West comes out in
in open letter to the Argus Offering
to give $50 i'm good hard cash toward
the sinking of a we'll.
a mar was drowned in the Mouse
river about three miles above Minot.
by the upsetting of a skiff in winch
he was being rowed over. Up to the
latest accounts the body had not
been recovered.
Graveyard insurance has been prac-
ticed in Cavalier county, and $4,000
secured on the life of one Jorgensen,
who, it appears. has been dead for
twenty years. The coin said to con-
tain his remains contained only cob
ble stones.
Osmund Gittleson was killed by
lightning four miles northwest of
Reynolds. He was blowing ut the
time and the fatal bolt struck him
dead ut the plow, while the team es-
| capped unframed.
y surveying party of the Northern
Pacific is making ~ new survey for
the Fargo q Southwestern from La
INQUIRE to Edgeley. They are at pres
ent engaged in selecting a line out
of the valley up to the bluffs west of
Lamoure.
John Van Duesen, of the celc.
brated Troy farm, ut Happen, has Just
dehorned his entire herd OF cattle,
l7o i'll number. He says the animals
did not seem to suffer at all while
their horns were being sawed off, and
that they are now doing nicely.
Governor Courch has appointed the
following as members of the North
Dakota board of Pharmacy: II. L.
IIaussamen. Grafton, for three years;
Frank Frisby. Bismarck, two years;
d. G. MaXcy, Fargo. one year.
The Northern Pacific has employed
Chas. w. Johnson, chief engineer of
the Omaha road, to inspect the condi.
ton of the track at Driscoll. where
the accident occurred a few days ago.
Mr.. Johnson was engaged us being q
disinterested expert.
The steamer Eclipse. OH her way to
Benton was sunk by striking on a
rock and breaking a hole in her hull,
about six miles above Buford last
Sunday evening. Her bow is in shall
low water and her stern in the deep.
Her cargo was valued at S35, 900 and
was insured for $4,000.
Miss Allshouse is the first woman
to prove up on a claim in Kidder
county on the five-year plan. Her
land is but u mile from the county.
scat-and. incidentally she has
changed her name during the five
years to Mrs. Smith.
Frank a. Wilson, assistant super.
intendent of public instruction, an.
nounces that the territorial board of
education has named Prof. C. II.
Clemmer, of Grand Forks, as conduc.
tor of institutes in North Dakota,
where Institutes are to be aided by
the territory.
A fire starting in Clemens livery
stable at Minot last Monday, burned
all the lower part of Main street. com.
prising half the town. Thirty build.
ings were consumed. Loss, $4,000;
no insurance. Rebuilding will com.
mence at once Minot is the western
terminus of the Manitoba road.
President Macarthur and Secretary
Scobel of the Manitoba Central, have
completed arrangements with the
Northern Pacific for u branch from
Grand Forks to the boundary, there
to meet the Manitoba Central and
Grand Trunk. Work is to be finished
by September l.
Ranchers on the Sioux reservation
have been notified to move off by
May 3lst, and if they refuse, the gov.
eminent will move them. A large
number of white men have resided on
the highway between Pierre and
Deadwood for the past ten years. en-.
gagged i'll raising cattle and keeping
open house for emigrants moving
west.
The Mandan Times says: The
Northern Pacific has contracted fol
$50 cars of rock for the dyke north
Of the Missouri bridge. Among those
holding contracts from the company
are c. w. Thompson, a. V. Schallern
and DR.. Geschel; f. f. Mitchell has
a sub-contract. There are fifty mer
at work on the dyke and steam shovel,
Brush. gravel and rock ought to make
the dyke permanent.
Pierre Free Press:-One of the
Winnebago settlers ordered to be re,
moved from the Winnebago reserva.
ton, was Il widow, Mrs Ryan, who
was too poor to even get to a railroad
station, but the b%ig-hearted soldier
boys raised a purse to pay for trans
porting herself, family and goods to
her friends. They took one of their
teams and took her to Canning,
bought her a ticket and paid the
freight on her household goods to her
destination. What Il contrast to the
narrow ruling of the administration.
Comment is unnecessary.